Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, as the government's Institute Nacional de Bellas Artes (which owns the convent) was investigating Siqueiros' charges, new and more serious trouble struck San Miguel. In the course of a drunken party, Mrs. Joan McHugh, a 23-year old student from Pittsburgh, accused Leonard Zurnis, a Brooklyn ex-G.L, of trying to seduce her. Later in the evening Mrs. McHugh passed out. When her husband Daniel entered the room a few minutes later, he found Zurnis asleep beside her. A brawl began; Zurnis ended up with a broken nose and fractured skull, died soon afterward...
...Youngest team, as figured by statistics-minded Brooklyn Boss Branch Rickey: his own Dodgers, with an average...
Trailing the league-leading Dodgers by 2½ games, the Cards moved into Brooklyn for a four-game series. In the first inning of the first game, Brooklyn Pitcher Elwin ("Preacher") Roe tempted Outfielder Stan Musial with a slow, change-of-pace curve; Musial eyed it carefully and whaled the ball over the right-field fence. In his box, the Dodgers' Branch Rickey generously remarked: "That Musial is a great hitter." The wallop was just a foretaste of what was going to happen to Brooklyn. The Cards won that game, 3-1, won the second game...
...third day, the roof fell in. Brooklyn's starting pitcher, Negro Don Newcombe, was shelled off the mound before he could get a single man out. Stan the Man made it an informal Musial Day by hitting for the cycle-a single, double, triple and home run-with a base on balls for good measure. Final score, with help from other old Cards like Outfielder Enos
Premium. In Brooklyn-Queens Night Court, York Deas explained that the betting slips found in his pocket must have come with the secondhand pants he bought the night before...